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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:33:00

California built its state fair a permanent Disney-inflected campus on the American River. Cal Expo - formally the California Exposition and State Fair - opened in July 1968 at 1600 Exposition Boulevard in Sacramento, when Governor Ronald Reagan cut the ribbon on the 350-acre grounds he had dedicated the year before. The move ended six decades at the old Stockton Boulevard fairgrounds, which had hosted the fair since 1909; the state had bought the riverside land as far back as 1948 and chartered...